Significant Reform Movements Of The 1900's

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Some of the significant reform movements of the 1900’s was the meat packaging movement that lead to better workplace conditions and better quality of food, the there was the suffrage which allowed women to vote, ten finally the reform of children at the workplace which exposed to the public what conditions were like for children in the workplace. Some significant activist were Upton Sinclair who wrote The Jungle and many other books that changed the face of the workplace and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who brought about the woman's right to vote. Tactics that activist used were peaceful protest such as with the suffragettes, then there was the spreading of information through books and newspapers like sinclair upton, and finally hunger strikes forcing